How To Get Glass Notifications, 3D Animated Icons and Large Taskbar Thumbnails in Windows Vista. Pretty neat eye candy.
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Vista Service Pack 1
🙄 Not until next year.
Apparently XP SP3 will follow that.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Overview (MS Whitepaper, pdf)
While Microsoft’s continued requests for businesses to not wait for SP1 before deploying Windows Vista may seem self-serving, this week’s revelations about the feature set of the service pack suggest that this advice is sound. Windows Vista SP1 looks like a solid and necessary update, but it will not dramatically impact the end user at all. If you’re a Windows enthusiast, Vista SP1 is more a curiosity than something to get excited about. It will not include anything interesting or compelling, in an end user sense, such as a new Media Center version. (Which is also overdue, incidentally.) Hopefully, this will end the speculation. I only wish Microsoft had been this upfront about SP1 months ago. It’s been a long time coming.
Ad-Aware Now Vista Compatible
Ad-Aware is an excellent Anti-Spyware product. There is a free version and a “pay-for” version.
Announcement
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Cool Tool Of The Week
I’ll be trying to introduce you to a different program every week. This week:
WinToolsXP & WinToolsVista… [Read more…] about Cool Tool Of The Week
Time To Run Windows Update
Vista has a bunch of updates & XP may have one or two for you (depending on your configuration).
Mark Russinovich – Vista Multimedia Playback and Network Throughput
THE Windows Guru explains the problem in depth. Good read.
Microsoft responds to Vista network performance issue
Little League World Series
I just watched the finals and caught several games this week.
What a pleasure to watch baseball (or any sport) being played the way it should be played. Those kids are all fantastic ball players and play with a passion that is lost in professional sports. Congratulations to the team from Columbus, Georgia for winning the series. Congratulations to the team from Kawaguchi, Japan as runner-up.
Vista Network Tweaks
I’ve been running some tests on Vista networking tweaks and I would appreciate any input you might have, especially in the testing department. Below are the tweaks and test scenarios. I will report my impressions in a few days so as not to influence any would-be testers. If you provide feedback please include what type of connection (cable, dsl, etc.) you have, what type of network card (10/100, giga, etc.) and what type of downloading you do (standard from browser, torrent, download manager, etc). [Read more…] about Vista Network Tweaks
Windows Experience Index Score Is A Joke
I keep seeing posts around the net asking about, comparing, and actually shopping for hardware to increase your WEI score. I know most of my fellow geeks know this is just a gimmick and nod to hardware vendors on the part of MS but some folks just don’t seem to get it. You want to increase your score? Here ya go (click thumbnail for a larger pic):
Your WEI score is here: C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore , edit it as you like 😉